Impossible for Malaysia to contain Swine Flu

With the limited success in quarantining all passengers or people in contact with swine flu confirmed cases, coupled with the delay in testing and confirming these swine flu cases, it is too late to contain this swine flu.

Please note that many swine flu cannot be detected with these tests and many now appear like normal flu except that they are not resistant to Tamilflu unlike the normal flu in US. Malaysian normal flu may vary.

Many journalists and even senior university lecturer are spreading false information that this swine flu is just like normal flu. It is more than 4 times more dangerous than normal flu and kills even apparently healthy individuals in half of the cases.

I fear that this ignorance will spread to our doctors who will dismiss this as a normal flu as what had happened to the first confirmed case. It was only after the 2nd confirmed Swine flu case was the quarantine for the rest of the passengers and crew were initiated. It is too late for that.

China is the only nation that is serious in quarantine procedures but even that may not be enough.

The deaths may be only 68, but this is only after 1 month. The deaths of 36,000 in USA for normal flu is for the whole year.

These flu may not cause death directly. Flu normally does not kill. It is the secondary infection that will kill in most cases.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Budget airline AirAsia said Sunday it has quarantined five crew members from a domestic flight that carried Malaysia's second confirmed swine flu victim.

The crew of flight AK5358, which flew from Kuala Lumpur to the northern city of Penang on Wednesday, was taken off duty Saturday, AirAsia spokesman Hamdan Mohamad said.

He said this was done on the orders of the Health Ministry as a precautionary measure. Story continues below ↓advertisement | your ad here

The flight was taken by Malaysia's second confirmed swine flu case, a 21-year-old female student who had arrived in Kuala Lumpur on a Malaysian Airlines flight earlier Wednesday from Newark in the United States. She was hospitalized after reaching Penang.

Malaysia's first confirmed victim is a 21-year-old friend of the woman, who also was on the Malaysian Airlines flight. He has been hospitalized in Kuala Lumpur.

The Star quoted Health Ministry Deputy Director-General Ramlee Rahmat as saying that both were in stable condition.

He said all 101 passengers on the AirAsia flight would be put under home quarantine.

Of the 119 passengers on the Malaysian Airlines flight, 95 have been located and put under home quarantine along with 15 crew members, Ramlee was quoted as saying. The 95 ― 80 Malaysians and 15 foreigners ― all are healthy, he said. The ministry is still trying to locate one remaining Malaysian and 23 foreigners, he said.

The World Health Organization has confirmed at least 8,480 human cases of swine flu in nearly 40 countries, mostly in the U.S. and Mexico, including 72 deaths.